June 1 - 14, 2009
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Sonia Sotomayor's Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court
News at Home
Why It's Time to Get Past Teddy White's Naive Account of the 1960 Election
W. J. Rorabaugh
The United States of Euphemism
William J. Astore
Attacks on Sotomayor Ignore Court's History and Makeup
Jeremy Young
Are We Kidding Ourselves About Our Great Tradition of the Fair Treatment of The Other?
Simon Balto
Liberal Policies Didn't Lead to California's Collapse
Louis Warren
The Ambivalent Presidency? Executive Power Under the Obama Administration
Peter M. Shane
What John Edwards Should Have Learned from Warren Harding
Phillip Payne
The Supreme Court: New Face, Old Arguments
Stanley I. Kutler
Political Highlights: President Obama Chooses Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his Nominee for the Supreme Court
Bonnie Goodman
News Abroad
Sectsploitation: How to Win Hearts and Minds in the Islamic World
Timothy Furnish
What Withdrawal from Iraq Will Not Look Like
Brendan O'Leary
Persecuting Terror Defeaters
Judith Apter Klinghoffer
China Holds the Key to the North Korea Problem
Adam Chapnick
The History of Torture Shows It Does Not Work
Robert W. Thurston
Historians and History
Channelling George Washington
Thomas Fleming
What Was the Civil War About? A Dissenting Point of View
Marc Egnal
Tiananmen at Twenty
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Ten Things Every American Student Should Know About Our Army in World War II
Rick Atkinson
Books
Review of Rashid Khalidi's Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East
Ira Chernus
Review of Alice Kessler-Harris's In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Pursuit of Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America
Jennifer Mittelstadt